[tz] Egypt to have DST again

[Matt Johnson]

It would appear that this change has not been confirmed yet.

The Arabic version of the original announcement would appear to state that legislation action is still to be taken:http://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/953556.aspx


Additionally, several news outlets are reporting that a lawsuit has been filed in the administrative courts:

http://www.moheet.com/2016/05/09/2423305





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Subject: Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again

We have seen similar reports. This one with an Oct date, but nothing official. Chasing down sources now.

SUMMER TIME IN A.R.E (UTC +3 HOURS) SHALL BE APPLIED THIS YEAR
WEF 0001 LOCAL TIME ON 08 JUL 2016 AND END AT 2100 UTC ON 27 OCT
2016.


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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Steffen Thorsen <thorsen at timeanddate.com<mailto:thorsen at timeanddate.com>> wrote:
Several of our users have reported on new DST plans in Egypt, which is confirmed by
several sources that all say Egypt will have DST from July 7 until the end of October.

Unfortunately, "end of October" is very vague, but we at timeanddate.com<http://timeanddate.com> would assume a rule like this for it, based on their historic end dates:
Rule    Egypt    2016    max    -    Oct    lastThu    23:00s 0    -
We also assume it will start at the end of July 7 (midnight between Thursday and Friday).

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/204655/Egypt/Daylight-savings-time-returning-to-Egypt-on--July.aspx
http://www.nileinternational.net/en/?p=25806

I found it interesting that EgyptAir seems to have assumed DST to start in April (like it previously did in 2010), and therefore this obviously causes problems with the schedules:

http://www.egyptair.com/en/about-egyptair/news-and-press/Pages/CANCELLATION%20OF%20DAYLIGHT%20SAVING%20TIME.aspx

Best regards,
Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com<http://timeanddate.com>

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